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Literature: history & criticism

Hardcover. Stephen Crane was a prodigious American author whose bohemian ways seemed to contradict his conscientious upbringing. Drawing on documents by Crane's father, mother and sister, this text shows how their vitality and versatility galvanized Crane's imagination and spurred his literary career. Num Pages: 352 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BG; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 531.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815629016
ISBN
9780815629016
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.78

Paperback. By looking at the ways in which cultures in Northern Europe interpret lyric songs, this work illuminates both commonalities of interpretive practice and unique features of their musical traditions. It draws on sets of lyric songs from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland to explore the question of meaning in folklore. Num Pages: 264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 181 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025892
ISBN
9780268025892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Hardback. Editor(s): McLean, Thomas. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; AN; BGL; DSB; DSR; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611474800
ISBN
9781611474800
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 146.13

Paperback. Editor(s): DePietro, Thomas. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 123 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Guernica Editions,Canada Canada
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550713121
ISBN
9781550713121
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.17

Hardback. Editor(s): Harper, Thomas L.; Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 632 pages, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBD; DSK; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
632
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231166584
ISBN
9780231166584
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 73.68
€ 56.86

Paperback. * Winner of the Milton Society of Americaa s Irene Samuels Book Award in 2002. * Invites readers to explore and enjoy Miltona s rich and fascinating work. * Comprises 29 fresh and powerful readings of Miltona s texts and the contexts in which they were created, each written by a leading scholar. Editor(s): Corns, Thomas N. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 544 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 256 x 29. Weight in Grams: 988.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405113700
ISBN
9781405113700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.09

Hardcover. Examining Albert's reading of "The Book of Causes", this text asks: how does he view the relation between faith and reason to identify creation with emanation from God; and how does he understand Platonism and Aristotelianism to find in a 5th-century Neoplatonist the key to Aristotle's meaning. Series: Publications in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; HPCB; HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268023515
ISBN
9780268023515
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.12

Hardback. The author analyzes the transformations of the love deities in later Middle English Chaucerian poetry, academic Latin discourses on classical myth, and French conventions that associate Venus and Cupid with Ovidian arts of love. Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804725156
ISBN
9780804725156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.75

Her interdisciplinary approach allows a deeper understanding of a time when exploration of the natural world was a culture-wide enchantment. Num Pages: 400 pages, 49, 49 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; DSA; DSBH; PDX; PST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 167 x 30. Weight in Grams: 728.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405179
ISBN
9781421405179
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.16

Hardback. Demonstrates the centrality of Gloria Anzaldua s concept of spiritual mestizaje to the queer feminist Chicana theorist s life and thought, and its utility as a framework for interpreting contemporary Chicana narratives. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL4. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350293
ISBN
9780822350293
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.64

Hardback. "A broad and deep analysis of Mary Magdalene's prominence through overlapping discourses of late medieval English culture.. An elegantly written and valuable resource on theater, gender, and religion."-Baylor Journal of Theater and Performance Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 360 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 703.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812238006
ISBN
9780812238006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.05

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633787
ISBN
9780691633787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.54

Hardback. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content." Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421409580
ISBN
9781421409580
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801442742
ISBN
9780801442742
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.70

Paperback. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, this book locates the works, which reflect crises in the evolution of Western law in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691114705
ISBN
9780691114705
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 59.42
€ 46.63

Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 6, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801450358
ISBN
9780801450358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 45.85

Paperback. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco's notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact "a secret without content." Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; HBLA1; JFHC; JFSV1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421422435
ISBN
9781421422435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99

Hardcover. Illuminates unexplored dimensions of the music-literature relationship and the sometimes unrecognized talents of certain famous writers and composers. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AVGC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 307 x 2. Weight in Grams: 570.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139733
ISBN
9781571139733
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360. 248 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801477829
ISBN
9780801477829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.45

Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226367552
ISBN
9780226367552
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 79.04

Hardcover. In the early spring of 1358 Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Petrarch declined, instead offering Mandelli this pilgrimage guide rather than his companionship. Translator(s): Cachey, Theodore J. Num Pages: 245 pages, 11 halftones, 39pp facsimile. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADT; DSBB; DSK; HRC; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 168 x 20. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
Facsimile
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268038731
ISBN
9780268038731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.49

Hardcover. This book provides a diverse, ever changing portrait of the complex movements of people and ideas that constituted both colonial Korea and the Japanese empire, adding the tumultuous experience of those fromn the Korean penninsula to the existing international canon of socialist and feminist literature. Editor(s): Hughes, Theodore; Kim, Jae-Yong; Lee, Jin-Kyung; Lee, Sang-Kyung. Series: Cornell East Asia. Num Pages: 415 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 31. Weight in Grams: 739.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Univ Of Hawai'I Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933947877
ISBN
9781933947877
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPK; APFR; DSB; HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157490
ISBN
9780231157490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 19 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPKS; 3JJP; APF; DSBH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231157483
ISBN
9780231157483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.58
€ 79.38

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